Things are slowly heading in the right direction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24668687

Yes, I'm thinking twice about voting for them at the next election.

The way they're presently performing, especially that public school prat Camoron, it might be a long time before you see it again!

Yeeks, the election's only 2 years away - I still haven't got used to the Conservatives being on the Government benches!

It's a thin play on words Lex.

Not an election in the non too distant future is there?

Looks like we avoided the double dip as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22484394

I think it's basically a case of the economy just holding steady - maybe stagnating? George Osbourne is genuinely playing the long game, and we're holding out own at the minute, and laying foundations for an economy that won't be as susceptible to the boom and bust cycles of the last 30 years (or maybe I'm being naive?)

Is it a fluke? Is it statistically significant?

I am not convinced.

Well, we've managed to avoid the triple dip in the first 3 months of the year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22290407

Interestingly, thinkers are challengers because they challenge the thinking and actions of others. Those that appear to be non thinkers are a combination of those that really haven't a clue and don't want to have a clue, just happy to have things done for them and those that have plenty of clues and are capable of thinking deep enough to know what tricks to pull and what buttons to push to get what they want with out having to go and break rocks for it and clearly feel the risk of being caught is marginal and worth taking the chance. These people are also challengers because they too challenge the thinking and actions of others from a different perspective. What is different is the motivation for doing so.

Deep thinkers who question actions and the results of those actions are sometimes viewed as a threat and so more smoke and mirrors are rolled out in attempt to divert the attentions of those people. It's a vicious circle, however, take a comfy seat and dig your toes in as it will always be a bumpy ride.

I'm for once, not sure I agree with what has been said here.
The unthinkers , true are what they are, and are quite happy as long as they have their little cocooned worlds safe, like animals in a zoo, being fed all they want from life -beer football and fags.Governments don't have any part in their lives until someone rocks their little boats and they see impending doom as their incomes are cut, then breathe a sigh of relief that it's not going to impinge on their ability to get the Beers, Footy and fags, even if it means the kids lose out, which mostly they don't as these people know all the benefit tricks. I've worked for social services, seen these people and worked with them, and they think they are so clever. (and some are so clever the way they work out the kind of tricks they get up to.Imagine what these people would be like if educated properly.)
Thats just one section of the population, and they will have no clout compared with the 'others and I believe that one day many of those aforementioned will come a cropper. If the government did their job properly and made every fit person work, and kids were educated properly, they too would realise what the government is up to.
But I cant see it happening with the stupid bunch in power now.... but not so stupid that they dont know which side their expensive bread is buttered.
The are conspirators in legalised crime.
It's past midnight and if this is convoluted I think you know what I'm on about.
If not --sorry.I'm off to bed --
to read Alan Bennett's 'Tales Untold' gloomy but excellent.

You have a point there. I used to run a creative thinking course to help with the problem solving courses I ran. People were really lost when they had to work out how things worked or what might happen in a given scenario. It's something I'd like to see put on the schools curriculum.

Exactly. It's always money, as it was then.

The problem is, we're still enslaved. It isn't by chains, it's by debt, and they'll do everything they can to keep us in debt and tied to their nasty little system. Politicians used to bluff and spin. Camoron told a blatant lie last week about our country's debt. Yet he'll get away with it. They foist the illusion of wealth on us, when it's all fueled by debt.

There is much wrong with this country, and we, the people, have ourselves to blame. We are far too interested in football, soaps, reality TV, cigarettes and cheap booze to see what is actually going on around us.

Look at the methods the politicians use; they divide and conquer at every opportunity.

I'm very surprised we haven't revolted by now-but the time will come.
It's not the 1900s when people accepted 'them and us' and were afraid of the gentry.Most were kept down by deliberate lack of education by the government.and everyone was supposed to'know their place' which was at the bottom of the pile..Also they were too malnourished to make the effort to revolt.It took them all their time to find food and somewhere to live.
Most of us are educated now, and know enough not put up with it.
One of my hobbies was researching.the working class of late 19th cent and early20th centuries and I can see what will happen if it all goes on like it is doing.
Im not clever enough,I wouldn't start a riot for instance --but I'd join in.
Everone should read 'The ragged trousered Philanthropist' by Robert Tressel
I'll step off my little stool now.

Smoke, mirrors, hide the truth from the masses - they might revolt. Imagine a snowball rolling down a hill picking up more snow as it rolls ever faster to its destruction.......